Jeff Koons Quotes
Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.
I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.
I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.
I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.
The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.
